Device for holding horses.



N0. 67|,850. Patented Apr, 9, EBQE.

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DEVlCE FOR HOLDING H'URSESY (Application filed Dec. 22, 1900.} (NoModel.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I,

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' ERllDOLPH WINCHEL, or WEBB CITY, MissoUnI.

DEVEGE FOR HOLDING HORSES.

forming part of Letters Patent Nth 671,850, dated April 9, 1901. l lApplication filed December 22, .1900. SerialNo. 40,737. (No model.)

To all whomlet may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH NINCHEL, a citizen of thellnite d States,residing at \Vebb Gil-y in the'county of Jasperand State of Missouri,have invented new and useful 1m provements in Devices for HoldingHorses,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for holding horses; and the' object ofthe same is to produce an attachment for a Wagon by which the mostfractious horse can be quickly brought to a stop; ltis'impo'ssiole for ateam hitched to a wagon equipped with my improvement to run away. Theywould be pulled up the instant the Wagon got under Way.

Thenovel construction devised by me for carrying out my invention isfully described in this specification and claimed and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which-- Figure 1 is aside elevation of a wagon with my device attached thereto. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. is a perspective of therear axle and the con nected mechanism. Fig. 4 is a plan view of theunder side of the wagon with a modified form of my device mountedthereon. Fig. 5 is a detail of the seat.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts wherever they occur inthe different views of the drawings.

The numeral '1 designates the bed of a wagon, supported at the rear onsprings 2. The springs 2 are seated on an axle 3, which is supported bywheels 5, having hubs 6. Bigidly mounted on one of the hubs 6 is acogged gear-wheel 7. Bythis construction the gear 7 is compelled to turnin unison with the rear Wheels 5. The gear 7 meshes with a gear 8, whichis keyed on a shaft 9, extending parallel to the axle 3. The shaft 9 isprovided with an enlargement S and is supported by means of a guidemember 9" and an arm 10. y The arm 10 is apertured at 11 to accommodatethe shaft 9 and has a clip 12 formed integral therewith, which straddlesthe axle 3 and is clamped thereon. A slot 13 cuts the guide member 9throughout the greater portion of its length, and the shaft 9 is mountedto slide therein. The guide-arm 9 is secured to the axle 3 in the samemanner as the arm 10'- that is, by a clip 14, formed integral therewithand straddling the axle. By this at raugement the gear-Wheel 8 can bethrown in or out of engagement with the gear 7. in order to hold the twogears normally in engagement, a coiled spring 15 is provided, which issecured to the axle 3 at 16 and oppositely attached to an ear 17 formedintegral with a ring 17, mounted on the shaft 9. The ring 17 has asecond car 17, to which is attached a connecting-rod 18 of the mechanismfor throwing the gears out of engagement. This connecting-rod 18 isoppositely attached to one arm 19 of a bell-crank lever 19. The lever 19is fulcru med in a bracket 20, secured to the bed 1, and its other arm19 is connected to a pusheror rod 21, which passes up and through anaperture in the bed and then through an aperture in the seat 22. Theupper end of the rod normally projects about two inches above the bottomof the seat and a false bottom 23 bears on the top of it. This falsebottom 23 is hinged at one end at 2% and extends the length of the seat.By virtue of the arrangcmeut just described the gears normally mesh; butif the driver is upon the seat and seated on the false bottom 23 thepusher 21 is depressed and the gears disengaged by the action of theconnecting mechanism. The shaft 9 is designed to also act as a drum andis therefore made of large size and hollow. It is conveniently formedfrom a piece of Water or gas pipe. A rope 24: is secured to the'shaft 9and passes back through a pulley secured to axle 3 and then extendsforward and is provided at its end with an eye or ring 25. In order tomake my device effective, the lines 26 from the harness are passedthrough a guide 27, mounted on the back of the seat, and thence down andthrough an apertured guide 28, seated in an opening in the floor of thewagon-bed. The lines 26 are fitted at their extremes with snaps 29,which are engaged in the ring 25. The guides "27 and 28 may beconveniently made of glass plates or may be pulleys.

The operation of my invention can now be easily explained. The driver onstopping at a place and before leaving the wagon passes the lines 26through the guides 27 and 2S and attaches the snaps on the ends thereofto the ring 25. He then leaves the seat, the

pusherv 21 is released, and the gears mesh.

If now the horses should start before the driver once more takes hisseat, the shaft 9 would .beactuated,

the lines drawn taut, and the team stopped.

..A modifiedform of my device is shown in Fig.- 3. r In this form a longshaft 30 is employed, which serves the same purpose as the shaft 9, andtwo gears 31 keyed thereon. The vshaft 30 'ismounted to slide in a pairof slotted guide arms 32, spanning the axle and secured thereto. flwogears 33 arealso employed, which gears .are rigidly mounted on the hubs6. and mesh with the gears 31. A

pair of springs 34 hold the gears normally in engagement and'twoconnecting-rods 18 conneet the bell-crank lever to the shaft 30. TheOperation of this form of my device is the same as the other, but thefour gears give more power than two.

I I doino't wish to be limited as to details of construction, as thesemay be modified in many particulars without departiugfiroin the in'gwithsaid first gear. an arm secured to the v rear axle and having anaperture therein through which said shaft passes, a spring secured atone end to the rear axle positely secured to the said shaft, and meansfor connecting the driving-lines to said shaiit, and means for fmovingsaid shaft in said guide to disengage said gears, substantially asdescribed.

2. -In a device for holding horses, the combination, with a wagon, of, afirst gear rigidly mounted in the hub of one of the rear wheels of saidwagon, a guide mounted on the rear axle of said wagon, a shaft bearing agear located to mesh with said first gear, said shaft being mounted toslide in said guide, a ring on said shaft, a spring connected at one endto the rear axle of the wagon and at the other end to said ring, abell-crank lever, a rod connecting said collar and one arm of saidbelland opcrank lever, a -pusher pivoted to the other arm of saidbell-crankv lever andextending up through the seat of the Wagon, and aboard hinged at one end to the seat and hearing on the top of saidpusher-rod, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

RUDOLPH WINOHEL. Witnesses GEO. B. Soo'rT, E. T. ALTER.

